the worst words in our language are: healthful and winningest
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do you also say "awesomrific"
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its a class marker "healthy" and "healthful" meant different things historically and the use of "healthy" to mean "healthful" was an innovation by marketers to sell high carb food to rubes in the 70s or whatever i dont wanna associate myself with that
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I’m fond of “healthsome” it pairs well with handsome
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and toothsome, which is also a terrible, terrible word
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it must be so annoying to have to explain the etymology each time people look down on you for it though
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ackshually I live for ithttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1344925347448377345?s=19 …
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